Jul 21, 2016 – Hemmer told Collins that no one could be happy about the fact that media coverage is less on Trump’s vice presidential pick, Indiana … These candidates are far from perfect. In fact, they’re weak. … But for those in the anti-Trump camp—the question now is whether they want to deal with a Clinton presidency working the a Democratic…

Jul 21, 2016 – That is a reliable formula for capturing 0.99 percent of the popular vote, as they did in the 2012 presidential election. … Faced with a Democratic legislature, Johnson vetoed more than 700 bills. … Weld managed to work with a Democratic legislature in pulling the state out of a fiscal crisis and balancing the budget.…

Jul 21, 2016 – party from the seemingly never-ending nomination marathon to the next phase of the campaign, which is one that will test the candidates … First, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has to be proven unfit to serve as president. … Second, Trump has to be seen as presidential material. The first will be easier to accomplish than the second. New Jersey Gov.…

Jul 20, 2016 – Manafort did head off any floor challenges, but he appears to have ignored the most important part of a presidential nominating convention … Aside from the debates, the candidates never will have this large an audience listening to them as they and their supporters deliver … to make every straw be the one that breaks the camel’s back while dusting every straw off the back of the donkey that is the Democratic…

Jul 20, 2016 – In an embarrassing turn of events for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, one person that was rumored to be on her vice … presidential candidate list may not even be voting for her in November. … I try to judge each election on the candidates in front of me and make an informed decision as a citizen and that’s what I would expect…

Jul 20, 2016 – It's not just presidential politics this year that may be spinning wildly, but his head. … It's embarrassing, but what isn't about this year's presidential contest? … Meanwhile, the Democrats' search for a vice presidential candidate proceeds from left to lefter.…

Jul 19, 2016 – Donald Trump postponed the announcement of his vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence, because of the terrorist attack in Nice, which … Disarray and disorder work against the party in power, especially if the president and his presidential candidate refuse to identify … It's likely that many alternative Republican nominees would easily beat Clinton and that many alternative Democratic nominees would…

Aug 6, 2016 – The presidential race has now become Donald Trump versus the world. … While he overcame unfair media treatment in the primaries and dispatched the party establishment and 16 entrenched candidates to win … The latest analysis from the Media Research Center shows the mainstream news media gave the Democratic National Convention more attention…

Aug 5, 2016 – Bush, many presidential candidates have been able to close a 10-point gap and win. What does Trump need to do? … As of mid-July, 56 percent of Americans thought the Democratic nominee should have been indicted.…

Aug 5, 2016 – WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's presidential campaign is coming unglued, a victim of his own erratic behavior and often bizarre, self-inflicted … In any other presidential election where the economy would be the centerpiece of the GOP's offensive, Trump has been focusing on one … However, his vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, is having none of this childish pettiness.…

Aug 4, 2016 – Candidates dislike and fear reporters, and so seek to flatter them. … Modernist candidates voice platitudes about border enforcement. … All presidential candidates court top party officials, former presidents and defeated rivals, and seek praise from newspapers and magazines…

Aug 3, 2016 – Let's also pretend that Trump's presidential effort is staffed with the best and brightest political minds. … coming out hard against Trump. — Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) August 3, 2016 A campaign directive distributed to House GOP candidates … by the NRCC encourages any member whose fate may be dragged down by Trump to cut the presidential nominee loose.  …

Aug 3, 2016 – Third-party candidates are majoring in muddying the waters again in our electoral politics. … This year, the Libertarian Party presidential candidates were featured in their own kind of prime-time primary debates. … repeal the (Lyndon Baines) Johnson Amendment, a subversive section of the tax code which has muzzled churches from advocating for candidates…

Aug 2, 2016 – Republicans for Johnson/Weld," wherein disaffected righty activists are throwing their support behind the Libertarian Party's presidential … “We will do our part to ensure the Johnson-Weld ticket is included on all 50 state ballots and included in the presidential debates … Many conservatives who may be strongly considering casting Libertarian presidential ballots as clean-conscience protest votes against…

Jul 31, 2016 – Both the Republican and Democratic National conventions featured remarks from retired army generals. … The Washington Post, Dempsey explained why he thinks it's unacceptable for his fellow retired generals to get involved in a presidential … It was a mistake for our presidential candidates to ask them to do so.” "The military is not a military prize," he added.…

Jul 30, 2016 – One Democratic strategist said Clinton will win if the Obama coalition of young and minority voters show up in force. … Democratic pollsters are also worried about the phantom white man vote. … These are both very flawed, and very polarizing candidates.…

Jul 30, 2016 – release his tax returns, then the news networks should refuse giving him airtime: The media is nothing if it can’t hold a presidential … candidates accountable—if newsrooms and editorialists can’t force a White House aspirant to keep a promise, uphold precedent, and … Now, to be fair, Fournier has criticizes both presidential candidates, Clinton especially for her email fiasco.…

Jul 29, 2016 – That’s a treasure trove of campaign memos and opposition research: The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate … and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. … candidates in campaigns for the House.…

Jul 29, 2016 – Today, we examine the uncertainties of a Donald Trump presidency and the participation of third party candidates in the presidential … Democratic National Convention Wikileaks. … Currently, the Libertarian (Gary Johnson) and Green Party (Jill Stein) presidential candidates are collectively polling about 15%.…

Jul 29, 2016 – became the Democratic Party’s next presidential nominee, the democratic process notwithstanding. … The first Democratic Party debate featured five candidates, but Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii chose to resign as Vice-Chair … She also protested that other qualified presidential candidates were not included on the debate state.…

Aug 17, 2016 – When the Washington Post puts its top investigative reporters on the beat of the distant youth of presidential candidates, there's … But how do we harness such "youthful passion," Adams asked, "without destroying the basic fabric of our democratic society?"…

Aug 16, 2016 – The obvious subject: what to do about Donald Trump's flagging campaign and how Republican down-ballot candidates can avoid the possible … In 2012 only 26 of the 435 congressional districts voted for one party's presidential candidate and the other's candidate for House … and congressional candidates.…

Aug 16, 2016 – One scene in the LBJ segment is particularly instructive when thinking about the two main candidates in the current presidential race … consideration of Johnson's pledge to create a "Great Society," there is film of him signing a large stack of bills passed by a Democratic…

Aug 13, 2016 – There's also the notion that shouldn’t imbrue the process of deciding presidential candidates by forcing states to hold primaries, … The Democratic one was a total disaster. … He even went further to say that we don’t need the Commission on Presidential Debates, comparing it to a dinosaur in this process.…

Aug 13, 2016 – In a presidential election year where several GOP Senate candidates are seeing their numbers getting dragged down amid Donald Trump … The latest poll to come from Ohio shows the incumbent senator pulling in a nine-point lead over his Democratic rival, former governor … County chapter of Black Lives Matters – their executive director also belonging to the executive committee of the Cuyahoga County Democratic…